Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 6.13.4, English translation, including word-by-word: This text represents a Vaishnava scripture which narrates the life Krishna, It was composed in seventeen cantos by Garga Muni: an ancient sage and priest of the Yadu dynasty having. This is verse 6 of Chapter 13 (The Glories of Prabhasa-tirtha, the Sarasvati River, Bodha-pippala, and the Place Where the Gomati River Meets the Ocean) of Canto 6 (dvaraka-khanda).

Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:

यत्र स्नात्वा दक्श-शापाद्
गृहीतो यक्श्मणोडुराट्
विमुक्तः किल्बिशात् सद्यो
भेजे भूयः कलोदयम्

yatra snātvā dakśa-śāpād
gṛhīto yakśmaṇoḍurāṭ
vimuktaḥ kilbiśāt sadyo
bheje bhūyaḥ kalodayam

yatrawhere; snātvā—bathing; dakśa-śāpāt—from Daksa's curse; gṛhītaḥ taken; yakśmaṇa—stricken with consumption; uḍurāṭthe moon; vimuktaḥ—free; kilbiśāt—from sin; sadyaḥ—at once; bheje—attained; bhūyaḥ—again; kalāof the phases; udayam—the rising.

English translation of verse 6.13.4:

By bathing at Prabhāsa-tīrtha, the moon-god became free of the disease he obtained by Dakśa's curse, although he did show his phases again afterward.

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